This chair is my first attempt at making a chair of any kind.  I actually didn’t have any desire to make a chair until I started seeing more and more people posting chairs on this site and others.  They kept crediting their designs to Sam Maloof.  Being fairly new to woodworking I started researching. I began to get interested and suddenly I wanted to try making one.  I thought about buying plans from one of those out there that sell plans on making a Maloof rocker, however that is not me.  I even told my wife one day that I wanted to try to do it myself without any plans. 

What you see here is the outcome of my first attempt.  It is made with maple and walnut.  All the maple used for this chair is reclaimed.  About nine years ago my father in-law was tasked to build a large credenza for a large bank.  Last year the bank decided to take it down.  My father in-law was asked if he wanted the wood.  Of course like any good woodworker he jumped on the opportunity.  Lucky for me he was willing to share the newly found maple with me.

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